Category: Science

Lucid dreaming describes when you realize you’re in a dream as it’s unfolding. Sometimes, people can control the content of their dreams from this state

Scientists have cooled atoms to the coldest temperature ever recorded, using a laser trap aboard China’s Tiangong space station . Tiangong included an experiment in

Archaeologists have found what may be the world’s oldest poisoned weapons at a 125,000-year-old site on an ancient lakeshore in Saudi Arabia. The stone tools

What determines which moments are remembered? The amygdala, typically associated with regulating fear and aggression, may play a major role

Europe’s Hera spacecraft is just beginning its exploration of the binary asteroid Didymos in a mission that’s tantalizing scientists on two fronts.

A newborn baby’s heart is roughly the size of a walnut — which makes open-heart surgery challenging. Each year, about 10,000 babies in the United

A telescope tasked with creating the largest-ever 3D map of the universe is making good on its promise. On Thursday (Nov. 12), the European Space

Maritime archaeologists investigating a 17th-century shipwreck off the coast of Sweden have discovered a fancy shoe and two metal rings used as currency in the

Natufian hunter-gatherers may have shown their kids how to sculpt clay, sets of preserved fingerprints suggest.

The gold bear would have been worn on a headdress. (Image credit: Almaty City Administration) Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered a unique gold bear figurine

More than a billion years of geological history is missing from the walls of the Grand Canyon, and now, scientists may know why. In the

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is nearing its final destination more than 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth, where it will soon

From left, Expedition 75 flight engineers Anil Menon of NASA (partially obscured and wearing the spacesuit with a red stripe on the legs) and Sophie

This explainer is part of Quanta Magazine’s Origins of Life Week. Check back throughout the week for more stories about one of science’s biggest unknowns.